A longtime player in Norway's dance music scene, Andersen became a fixture on labels like Trailerpark Recordings, Claremont 56 and Full Pupp during the second half of the '00s, blending a heavy Detroit techno influence with Scandinavia's signature Balearic disco sound. Last year, Full Pupp co-founder and occasional collaborator Prins Thomas invited him into his studio for three months to help shape the backlog of material that would become Blackbelt Andersen II, using, as Thomas puts it in the press release, "whatever kind of tool we had at our disposal to colour in the white fields." The album will be issued both as a "partially mixed" CD and in slightly condensed form as a vinyl doublepack.